Eventually some of the merozoites differentiate into male and female gametocytes, which are ingested by a mosquito and differentiate into gametes in the mosquito’s gut. 

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Stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other are called enantiomers

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Isomers that have opposite configurations at one or more of the chiral centers but that are not mirror images of each other are called diastereomers

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Two sugars that differ in configuration at only one chiral center are described as epimers.

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d-mannose and d-talose are epimers and d-glucose and d-mannose are epimers, whereas d-glucose and d-talose are not epimers but merely diastereomers

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Linear form of glucose (and other aldohexoses) could undergo a intramolecular reaction to form a cyclic hemiacetal.

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Isomers of monosaccharides that differ only in their configuration about that asymmetric carbon atom are called anomers, designated as a or b,